From snow-capped peaks to grassy valleys, surely all creation joined nature's chorus as the Almighty's symphony sprang to life. This speechless choir sang lofty melodies of celestial ecstasy while lions and lambs wrestled playfully. Was it a day like today?
Not a weed or even a grating word poisoned this sublime paradise. Did the swallow's breezy melody rouse our original parents? Did their eyes open at the playful nudge of an amiable beast? They laughed, they loved and simplicity ruled. Then revolution. Sedition!
By sunset the songbird's strain shed its rapture, even the grass wore gloomy hues. Whispers and gasps, sobs and groans pushed through swaying fields pursuing relief, but finding none. Dispirited waters lay quiet below crimson skies as the back of God's creation buckled under the burden of sedition's abomination. Confusion grabbed repose, brutes roared and consciences begged for clothes. Offering treason no reward, with angels and blazing swords God promised to end sin's discord.
If dirges flowed like mountain streams and tears outnumbered stars surely this day beheld both. Did Eve forget the command of her Sovereign? Did Adam consider the consequences of his crime? How could such tragedy occur? They physically walked with God every day! They heard His voice and spoke to Him directly. Their minds were sharp and their bodies strong. They had only one temptation with which to contend. Only one! What was their excuse? What were they thinking?
Did our first parents lack faith in the honor of their Creator's clear warning; in the day that you eat from it you will surely die. (Gen 2:17)? Did they think that somehow they could hinder the declaration of almighty God, or that He might alter His divine edict? Perhaps they hoped for a celestial case of amnesia.
What lunacy grasped the minds of the innocent pair? Friend, like a cerebral stranglehold, "Ye shall not surely die" tightened its grip on the unspotted minds of Eden. Now, if the devil's first lie deluded our pre-fall, first parents who enjoyed daily communion with their Creator, only God knows the substantially greater probability of our being deceived.
Bear in mind, nothing changes the devil's lie into God's truth. Nothing! Just as nothing can make one plus two equal four, nothing makes, "You won't die," a statement of truth when promised to anyone, professing believer or not, who continues in sin. Gentle reader, be warned, though popular but grossly deceived contemporary, evangelical teachers Christianize and disguise Satan's lie, "Ye shall not surely die," remains hell's drug tragically dumbing the minds and closing the eyes of men!
For a detailed consideration of religious deception in general and of Christianity in particular read Daniel LaLond's book The Lying Promise. The book and the website, Defending The Gospel.org, exposes Satan's garden lie stealthily woven into the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Daniel LaLond Jr. is a Christian, a husband, a father, a pastor, an author and a seminary graduate. He, his wife of 23 years and their four children reside in the Chicagoland area where he currently serves at Living Waters Assembly.
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